Word: documental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does a good job on the report of the 23 gentlemen from the South, Mr. Mellett will present President Roosevelt with a useful document: a "report" whose homely truths would go down more easily in the South than such blunt criticism of Southern wages and economic standards as Franklin Roosevelt voiced last March at Gainesville; a basis for Administration action which would then look more like an obedient answer to the South's requests than Presidential interference in the South's favorite ways of life...
...Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry. Three men had been furtively plotting. Their plot: to blow up a Northern Pacific locomotive...
...Sandys' information. Thereupon Sandys drew up a formal question to be asked in the House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact number and positions of guns during the critical German-Austrian Anschluss weekend. Since M. P.s are not allowed to hold active commissions in the regular armed forces, most of them depend on private "leaks" for their inside...
...years ago dark, spectacled, deliberate William Gellermann, a professor at Northwestern University, submitted a thesis for his Ph.D. at Columbia's Teachers College. A War veteran and member of the American Legion, Professor Gellermann had written a copiously documented but partisan analysis of the Legion.* Its sponsor was Teachers College's leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. Last year, typewritten copies of this document got scant attention from the press. But last week, as the National Education Association gathered in .Manhattan (see col. 3) and the first copies of Dr. Gellermann's work came from the printers...
...fleeing from their farms, townsfolk with-pinched faces huddled beside ruined buildings or staring forlornly out to sea, make up its most effective sequences. As such, they constitute an interesting variation on the Hollywood war-picture formula but are scarcely enough to give the picture top rating, either as document or as drama. Typical shot: Fonda and Madeleine Carroll, having taken refuge in a cellar during an air raid, deciding they are permanently entombed when a pile of loose bricks blocks the windows...